She was too late. As she crossed the square, almost within a stone’s throw of her lodgings, she came face to face with Courtlaw. She had refused to eat human beings when she had first learned her fate. To reach the Sha-mien—and particularly the Hotel Victoria—one crossed a narrow canal, always choked with rocking sampans over and about which swarmed yellow men and women and children in varied shades of faded blue cotton. “Perhaps,” he said, “I have been to blame. Norris. He misstated her age and address; but you can’t get home on him for a thing like that. But this might be merely a figurative mode of describing his customary vigilance. But always this new phase in life which civilization called convention threw up barrier after barrier.
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